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noun
1.
grain to be ground.
2.
ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3.
a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4.
Older Use. a quantity or lot.
verb (used with object)
5.
to grind (grain).
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Grist mill
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
6.
grist for/to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, especially something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist for her mill.
Related forms
grist·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
grist
O.E. grist "action of grinding, grain to be ground," perhaps related to grindan "to grind" (see grind). Meaning "wheat which is to be ground" is c.1430; the figurative extension from this sense is from the same date.
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